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How Location-Based Services Will Shape Future Cities and Save Many Lives

Posted on by Khayle Guillermo

The latest advancements in location-based services (LBS) are bringing about major improvements in accuracy, reliability and the services that can be delivered. Due to these advances, LBS are increasingly being deployed in mission-critical applications such as guiding emergency services directly to a caller.

Yet it’s the huge range of potential commercial applications that may boost mobile operators’ revenues. With the ever increasing threat from ‘Over-the-Top’ (OTT) services, operators have been looking at new ways to generate income from their pre-existing network infrastructure. LBS may be just the answer. [Read more..]


Written by: Stevie Ooi, CEO
Publish by: http://www.m2mevolution.com/ 
Posted on: January 08, 2015

SIM-based LBS: Breathing New Life into an Operator’s Network with M2M connections

Posted on by Khayle Guillermo

SIM-based LBS: Breathing New Life into an Operator’s Network with M2M connections

2014 saw some important developments in the telecommunications sector, as operators continued to come under pressure from Over-The-Top (OTT) services. With the reality for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) being falling revenue from calls and text messaging, operators are now looking toward offering new enterprise services. Rethinking mobile networks as business service delivery systems means operators can extend reach, and increase revenue from a large underutilized market. [Read More..]


Written by: Stevie Ooi, CEO
Publish by: http://www.m2mevolution.com/ 
Posted on: January 08, 2015

Why SIM-based LBS Offers New Hope to Drive Location Revenues

Posted on by Khayle Guillermo

Why SIM-based LBS Offers New Hope to Drive Location Revenues

It is no secret mobile operators have been losing out to Over-the-Top (OTT) services for a while now. Carriers are seeing falling revenues from their core services (calls and texts) as OTT providers undermine these offerings with their own services. As a result, operators are increasingly looking towards the enterprise market to secure new revenue streams and stave off simply becoming a “dumb pipe”.

One area of interest for mobile operators is location-based services (LBS) for enterprise. Fact is LBS can energize and even transform industries such as advertising, logistics and workforce management. However, just as with messaging, OTT services have started developing LBS offerings – and this risks cutting operators out of another lucrative revenue generator. So, are mobile operators destined to lose the OTT fight or can they launch their own LBS solution to claw back revenues? [Read More..]


Written by: Stevie Ooi, CEO
Publish by: http://www.policychargingcontrol.com/ 
Posted on: 02 October 2014